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Prodigiaspis septunx Ferris, 1941 (Diaspididae: Prodigiaspis)

Prodigiaspis septunx Ferris 1941d: SIII-313. Type data: PANAMA: Chiriqui, Boquete, on Nectandra sp., 1938, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; Shanghai: Shanghai Institute of Entomology, China; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Countries: 1

Systematics: Prodigiapsis septunx is unique and there is nothing in the North American fauna with which it can easily be confused (Ferris, 1941d).
Structure: Female scale elongate, quite rough, white in fresh specimens, but becoming brown with weathering. Scale of male similar in form, usually in more exposed locations, very white. Slide-mounted adult female about 1.75 mm long, oval, posterior extremity slightly pointed. Pygidium relatively small. Median lobes very low and broad, separated slightly from each other with a pair of small and slender gland spines, two between median and 2nd and 2nd and 3rd lobes and a group of 3 or 4 on the 5th and 6th segments (Ferris, 1941d).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1941d).